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6 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Are friends and allies one and the same, or mutually exclusive?

Genuine question.
This is relevant but I'd distinguish between nations & individuals. I agree with de Gaulle not because France was unique but because nations can't be "friends". Too much personification. Allies is the best they can hope for. Thinking through individuals...
Analogously, I think of fans as allies. People who listen to my podcast, subscribe on Patreon, read my articles, share, comment, review - are allies in my mission to grow my voice. Few are friends. I don't hold that against friends - or expect to plan a vacation w/my patrons.
Another consideration: the weakness of modern friendships. Few are rooted in necessity or survival. Weak bonds don't lend themselves to allyship, jeopardizing a job or reputation for a glorified acquaintance. I suspect the friend/ally overlap is shrinking.
Forgot I wrote this...

This is why I've come to realize the importance of having - and investing in - family. It's the last bastion of strong bonds available in our society. Family will be our last - and only - reliable allies.

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A 9/11 Lesson

I lived in NYC on 9/11. My mom worked at WTC & was rescued by a guy who pulled her into a subway station as the first tower was collapsing. She was missing for 10 hours. We feared the worst. Cell towers were down. She trekked through subway tunnels to Brooklyn.
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The heaviest relief came when we finally reconnected. It never came for so many.

As the smouldering stench that permeated the city for months subsided, so did their hopes.

You'll hear plenty of platitudes today. But I try to take one lesson from that experience each year...
This year, that lesson is "freedom", but not in the way you think...

The same people who created the Taliban & Al Qaeda manipulated an emotional nation into a preposterous idea: imposing our definition of freedom on others - with war.

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7 Sep
In the last few years, journalism has failed is in so many ways.

A big part of the problem is expectations...
We are not on the same page as to what journalism should be - and need to decide soon. It might be too late, as the market has decided for us...

...and we need to adjust.

Many already are.

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It's wild that 800K voters decide who's mayor of a city of 8.4M.

Since there's no viable opposition party in NYC, the Democratic primary is the election.

What if @KGforNYC and/or @AndrewYang decided to mount a GOP or 3rd party campaign for November...?
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Bloomberg did this. His first win was as a Republican, then Democrat, then Independent. Some of his people are working w/Andrew Yang, so it's not inconceivable.

I'd say this shuts the door to a future in the Democratic party, but so does being an outsider or becoming NYC mayor.
For the record, I supported Yang.

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27 Jun
MUSIC & INFLUENCE

Ever wonder how strange it is that most music that shapes our lives was written by 20-somethings?

An age that's decades before creatives truly develop a distinctive voice & depth of experience.

So why is this the case?

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1) Selection
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3) Universality
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2) Genius: The people who do succeed are likely to be standouts, if not geniuses. If not as songwriters, then performers or determined success-seekers. They have an unstoppable quality that will break through quickly.
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18 Jun
This is not how innovation works.

Looking at # of transistors (Moore's Law) or crop yields is linear and ignores the networked, ecosystem-driven nature of innovation.

Short thread responding to this research.

1/9
mattsclancy.substack.com/p/innovation-g…
Yes it's true, most technologies plateau. We've seen that w/smartphones, computers, apps & all consumer tech.

Similarly, entire industries plateau & consolidate. How often do you think about your electricity or water supplier?

These become platforms on which others build.

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But looking at water supply companies won't give you that data.

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This is a harbinger of things to come, some already here.

On the surface, Epicurious eliminating beef recipes is like when CVS stopped selling cigarettes, cutting off some recurring (addicted) foot traffic.

Just a calculated business decision?

No.
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Whatever you think of the urgency of climate change, the best solutions, or effectiveness of this specific move (⬇️ beef), this move is the product of powerful climate narratives manifested in the real world by adherents (Epicurious employees/mgmt).

This is just the start.

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I suspect it's just a matter of time before Google adjusts its algorithms to make finding beef recipes as hard as they did to find funny photos of portly people (to make fun of myself).

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